Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like a solid string of Broadway openings. Behind the scenes, all was hysteria, tantrums and frantic last-minute pinning, as couturier after couturier sent out his fall and winter models in one make-or-break fashion show. It was even worse out front, where fashion editors, buyers and quick-sketch artists-most of whose skirts rode up to mid-thigh-wildly scribbled and checked programs in a furious effort to catch the new trends...
Lolita, says Field, "is a novel of prisons." The idea for it came to Nabokov from a Paris newspaper account of a monkey who, "after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage." Humbert Humbert is a prisoner of lust. He imprisons first Lolita, then his deadly rival Quilty. Later he writes his memoirs from prison. For Nabokov, the book's theme is love-and the necessity to liberate love from "its extreme and seemingly mutually exclusive opposite, lechery." Eventually...
Born. To Lord Rothermere, 69, Fleet Street press lord (London Daily Mail, Evening News, Daily Sketch), and Lady Rothermere, 36, Texas heiress and niece of Dallas Oil Magnate Clint Murchison: their first child (he has a son, heir to the peerage, and two daughters by his first marriage; she has six sons by her prior marriage), a boy; in London. Name: Esmond Vyvyan...
Although it didn't turn out the way I planned it, let me sketch out briefly my own course of study while a Fellow. My experience in government had concentrated on the political and politico-military aspects of the less-developed areas of the world. I wanted to learn more about economics, basic to all our foreign policy interests and involvements, and be able to better relate them to political and security considerations. I also felt that if the private sector didn't commit more of its resources to the development effort, you could forget about closing the gap between...
...backyard. A colleague with a wandering eye (Robert Morse) nominates himself as Matthau's instructor in the arcane rules of high-infidelity. Like most modern teachers, Morse goes in for visual aids: every time he makes a pedantic point the screen lights up with a lively sketch from life, featuring 13 stars in cameo roles as "technical advisers...